The Aperlena Verdict
Open raceNo supplier dominates: 9 different companies have won the last 9 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.
Based on 9 comparable awards by this buyer in this sector over 5 years. Every verdict is recorded before the outcome and graded against the award notice. How we score ourselves.
Summary
Machine-generated summaryThe Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food is procuring laboratory equipment for its Livestock Centre unit. Group A covers equipment for fitting out and operating the laboratory: a set of piston pipettes and a multi-channel pipette, a mini vortex mixer, a microcentrifuge, a magnetic stirrer and a power supply station. Group B covers laboratory freezers reaching -86 C for storing biological material and isolated DNA. Funding comes from intervention 70.05, support for the conservation, sustainable use and development of genetic resources in agriculture. The minimum acceptable warranty period is 12 months from handover of the devices; offers with shorter warranties will be rejected. Bidders must complete Appendix I technical specifications and Appendix VI warranty declaration and attach the product catalogue.
Description
2 lots
- Lot 1
- Grupa A - oprema estimated €6,500 · 1 month
- Lot 2
- Grupa B - zamrzivači estimated €29,000 · 1 month
- How tenders are scored
- Cijena ponude: 80 points; Rok isporuke: 20 points
- Small firms
- The buyer marks this procedure as suitable for small and medium-sized firms.
- Tenders go to
- eojn.hr/tender-eo/103634
As the official notice states them.
Bid or no-bid?
Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.
Can I bid?
- Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid. Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.
- The notice is written in Croatian.
- Certificates from another EU country? Check the equivalents on eCertis
Official source
Source: TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU)
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Last verified against TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) 21 hours ago
Expected award price
- likely award for this notice, from its published estimate of €1,045,100
- €846,531 to €1.0M
Comparable awards in this country and sector came in at a median of 96% of their published estimate, half of them between 81% and 100%, based on 53 awards of the last 3 years.
Each award is compared with the estimate of the same lots, framework agreements excluded. A published estimate may include options and renewals, so an award under it is not always a discount.
What this buyer has paid before
Based on 7 comparable contracts this buyer awarded in this sector over the last 4 years.
- This notice
- €1.0M
- Median award
- €33,510
- Middle half of past awards
- €24,232 to €134,720
The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.
Most recent awards
- Laboratory, optical and precision equipment (except glasses) - Laboratory equipment CVP SATECON €102,335
- Hrvatska - Laboratorijska, optička i precizna oprema (osim naočala) - Laboratorijska oprema - CZB €33,510
- Hrvatska - Laboratorijska, optička i precizna oprema (osim naočala) - Laboratorijska oprema CZB EFSA GRANT €26,465
- Laboratory, optical and precision equipment (excluding glasses) - Laboratory equipment N-2/2025 Oscillating U-tube laboratory densitometer, repeated procedure €22,000
- Hrvatska - Laboratorijska, optička i precizna oprema (osim naočala) - Laboratorijska oprema - Uređaji (CS) €16,576
Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.
The buyer
Full buyer profileHrvatska agencija za poljoprivredu i hranu
- notices in the register
- 89
- awards
- 35
- awarded in total
- €2.1M
Who wins its contracts
Many suppliers- different companies won its awards
- 30
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 13%
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 100%
Based on 31 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 1.5
- of those lots received a single tender
- 57%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 7%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.
Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector
| Company | Wins | Total awarded | Last win |
|---|---|---|---|
| LABENA d.o.o.; RU - VE d.o.o.; INEL - MEDICINSKA TEHNIKA d.o.o.; GOREA PLUS d.o.o. | 1 | €369,315 | Aug 2025 |
| LABENA d.o.o.; EUROKONTAKT d.o.o. | 1 | €167,104 | Apr 2025 |
| Optik Instruments, specializirano posredništvo, d.o.o. | 1 | €102,335 | Sep 2026 |
| Altium International d.o.o. | 1 | €33,510 | Jun 2026 |
| KONCEPT MEDIA d.o.o.; SIMON d.o.o.; KEFO d.o.o.; CRUX d.o.o.; LABENA d.o.o.; Astrafokus d.o.o. | 1 | €26,465 | Nov 2025 |
Based on 9 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.
7 open tenders right now
Market context
Larger than 85% of the open notices in Laboratory & precision equipment across Europe.
- open now in Laboratory & precision equipment
- 1,648
- median open notice
- €214,030
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersCroatia · Laboratory & precision equipment
- different companies won awards here
- 87
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 14%
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 50
Based on 131 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 1.6
- of those lots received a single tender
- 55%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 8%
- of the tenders came from another country
- 14%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
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